Jess trained at Motley.

Theatre credits:Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare North Playhouse); Vincent River (The Bridge Theatre, Brussels); A Postcard From Morrocco (Dutch National Opera Academy); Jekyll and Hyde (Derby Theatre); Brief Encounter (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Genesis Inc. (Hampstead Theatre); Loosing Venice (The Orange Tree Theatre); Uncle Vanya (The Almeida); Villette, Dangerous Corner (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Pod, Provok’d (Devised at Guildhall School); Kiss Me Quickstep, Haunting Julia, Love Letters (The Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch); One For The Road, Glass Cage, Follies (Royal and Derngate, Northampton); The Holy Rosenbergs (National Theatre); Hotel Cerise (Theatre Royal, Stratford East); Another Door Closed (Theatre Royal Bath); Endgame (Liverpool Everyman); Dangerous Corner (West Yorkshire Playhouse & West End); Frankenstein (Frantic Assembly, Northampton); Burial At Thebes (Nottingham Playhouse & Barbican & US Tour); Rhapsody, Fantasy (Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House).

She has also designed the Grovesnor Park Open Air Season 2013- 2016/2021, the opening season at Storyhouse Theatre and bar interiors for Underbelly at the South Bank, Hyde Park and Leicester Square.

She is part of the Society of British Theatre’s Sustainability working group.